flargleblarg - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Oh noes! (Score 1) 51

by flargleblarg on Thursday March 13, 2014 @10:31PM (#46479585) Attached to: Singapore To Regulate Virtual Currency Exchanges

I think the BitCoin community is doing a pretty good job of ruining the currency on their own without government help

Of course it is. You just keep right on thinking that. It's doing such a good job that you don't have scams like Mt Gox or other exchanges just vanishing in the night. Naw, nobody is out almost a half a billion dollars because of a poorly run exchange or just outright theft. Damn, skippy its doing a fine job.

Lord Apathy, I don't think you read very carefully. Bobbied said that it was doing a pretty good job of ruining the currency [on its own without government help], not that it was doing a pretty good job.

Comment Re:Bad math (Score 1) 335

by flargleblarg on Thursday March 13, 2014 @03:08PM (#46475821) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

$100 / 10 TB / month ==> $0.02 / month

Annnndd.... I can't type today.

(Why the hell doesn't Slashdot let us edit our articles to correct typos after posting?)

Comment Bad math (Score 1) 335

by flargleblarg on Thursday March 13, 2014 @03:04PM (#46475787) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

Summary parrots article, saying:

$1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB.The 2 dollar plan per month means that the price for a gigabyte gets down to an incredibly low price of only two cents per month.

While it's true that the 2-dollar plan per month are $0.02 per month, the other plans are only $0.01 per month. Failing to mention this is bad math.

Here is a table of prices:

$2 / 100 GB / month ==> $0.02 / month $10 / 1 TB / month ==> $0.01 / month $100 / 10 TB / month ==> $0.02 / month

(Yes, I know it's technically $1.99 and not $2.00, but let's face it... prices ending in ".99" are retarded.)

Comment Re:I'm confused. (Score 0) 335

by flargleblarg on Thursday March 13, 2014 @02:57PM (#46475721) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

On that plan, the price per gigabyte works out to $0.02 per month. Because you get 100Gb.

Actually, you get 100 GB (gigabytes), not 100 Gb (gigabits).

Comment Re:$10,000 a month (Score 1) 144

by flargleblarg on Friday February 28, 2014 @11:21PM (#46373247) Attached to: Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players

How do you know that person isn't taking $1,000,000 vacations and spending the $10,000 while ON vacation?

In other words, someone with an extra $10,000 to spend on games probably actually has an extra $1,000,000 to spend on other stuff as well.

Comment Re:mathematica? (Score 4, Funny) 216

by flargleblarg on Friday February 28, 2014 @01:18PM (#46368573) Attached to: Wolfram Language Demo Impresses

"Show a pink cylinder with a purple sphere at the end with two pink spheres."

Comment Re:First blacks, (Score 1) 917

by flargleblarg on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:26PM (#46361051) Attached to: Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation

Dude, relax. It was a joke. Would the humor have been clearer if it had ended in ";)" ?

Comment Re:First blacks, (Score 1) 917

by flargleblarg on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @01:25PM (#46347403) Attached to: Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation

There are physical reasons why it can be pleasurable for many men (see link at end). The prostrate being the biggest one. [...]

Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward is pleasurable?

Submission + - Should Computer Science become a required class in High School ? 1

Submitted by HW_Hack on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:41PM

HW_Hack writes: I am fortunate to work at a high school that has a thriving technology program. It is led by an enthusiastic and very knowledgeable teacher only a few years into his career. He was using Game Design classes to draw students into programming a couple of years before such ideas were written up in places like Slashdot. Yet in many schools and school districts such programs are not only rare, but struggle to compete with other departments such a Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, etc. for dollars and head count. Should Computer Science be added to the list of required subjects such as Math or Social Studies ? Such a question is being asked at We The People via a petition: http://wh.gov/lUL8u

Comment holding a grudge (Score 5, Informative) 33

by mattdm on Monday February 17, 2014 @03:39PM (#46269625) Attached to: Gracenote, Privacy, and the Rise of Metadata As a Valuable Asset

Back in the 1990s, I helped run one of several mirrors for CDDB. When the company suddenly took a proprietary turn, they shut all of those down. They sent message promising to give some sort of reward to everyone who had run a mirror, but nothing ever showed up.

I guess a couple of million would probably make it up....

In seriousness, this was an early wakeup call about contributing to "community" projects without clear licenses for submitted data. And here I will put in a plug for FreeDB, which forked the original and continues to run it in an open way, with submissions under the GPL. http://www.freedb.org/en/about...

Comment Re:There is no spoon (Score 1) 458

by flargleblarg on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:08AM (#46064571) Attached to: Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes'

There... are... four... black holes!

Comment Re:That's not the problem. (Score 1) 312

by flargleblarg on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @08:53PM (#45971579) Attached to: Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use

Ha! My squirrel ate your water-flea

Ha! My dog ate your squirrel

Comment Re: Basic Statistics (Score 1) 312

by flargleblarg on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @08:49PM (#45971549) Attached to: Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use

To be fair, standard deviation has a meaning for any distribution, [...]

False.

Cauchy distributions have neither a mean nor a standard deviation.

Comment Summary (and article's first paragraph) misleading (Score 4, Insightful) 105

by mattdm on Saturday January 11, 2014 @12:58PM (#45926661) Attached to: Lasers Unearth Lost 'Agropolis' of New England

This makes it sound like a long-lost native civilization was discovered. Not the case. Early European settlers in New England devastated the native landscape and, basically, turned it into English sheep farms. As expansion pushed westward and agriculture shifted with it, that economy changed and native (and some invasive) species have reclaimed the landscape.

Still very cool and interesting, but a different story from what you might expect from reading the lede.

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 211

by flargleblarg on Thursday January 09, 2014 @03:52AM (#45904875) Attached to: Are Tablets Replacing Notebook Computers? (Video)

An 11 inch device is no less portable than a 10 inch device. And they're making plenty of those in the form of Chromebooks, capable of running complete OSes (I know, I have one). Hell, the very first comment in your link even points that out.

Actually, it's 10% less portable.

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